We talk every day. When we have good news, we like to share it with our good friends and when something terrible happens, we make it known to others soon. But can you imagine that a tree can talk and share hews too? Of course, no tree moves lips and says words just as people do. Strange as it may sound, though, some trees do manage to communicate with each other.
Willow(柳樹) trees are the best-known of these trees. When insects(昆蟲) begin nibbling(叮咬) a willow tree, the tree sends out a special smell at once. This smell tells the other willows that harmful insects are coming near. All of them quickly make a chemical(化學物質) in their leaves. This chemical is bad to the insects. The insects do not like it and they fly away soon. In this way, the willow trees protect themselves from the insects.
The next time when you take a walk in the woods, maybe the trees are “talking” to each other quietly. And when someone says that trees cannot “talk”, please tell them that even trees give messages to each other, too.
【小題1】Willow trees send messages with _________.

A．wordsB．movementsC．smellsD．sounds
【小題2】the underlined word “lips” in the first paragraph means ________.
A．樹干B．嘴唇C．枝條D．手勢
【小題3】 The passage tells us that some of the trees can ________.
A．speak just as people doB．tell stories to others
C．communicate with each otherD．kill insects in the woods
【小題4】According to the passage, the right order of the following is ________.
a. The willow tree gives out a smell.
b. The willow trees make a chemical in their leaves.
c. Insects fly a way because of the chemical.
d. Insects begin nibbling a willow tree.
A．d-a-b-cB．d-b-a-cC．a-b-c-dD．d-c-b-a


【小題1】C
【小題1】B
【小題1】C
【小題1】A

解析【小題1】細節(jié)理解題，由文中語句“When insects begin nibbling (叮咬) a willow tree, the tree sends out a special smell at once. This smell tells the other willows that harmful insects are coming near.”可知選C。
【小題2】詞義推斷題，由文中涉及到人類用嘴說話，而樹木沒有挪動lips而像人一樣，故推測是嘴唇，選B。
【小題3】細節(jié)理解題，由文中語句“some trees do manage to communicate with each other.”可知選C。。
【小題4】細節(jié)理解題 ，從文章的第二段的內容，可知先昆蟲咬了柳樹，然后柳樹發(fā)出味道，柳樹在樹葉里有化學物質，然后是昆蟲飛走了。選A。

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